{"id":905,"date":"2009-05-02T22:38:54","date_gmt":"2009-05-02T22:38:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=342"},"modified":"2009-05-02T22:38:54","modified_gmt":"2009-05-02T22:38:54","slug":"5109","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=905","title":{"rendered":"5\/1\/09"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have traveled to mid-Ohio to look at sustainable agriculture practices. \u00a0 Today I found myself in a conversation with several social-justice oriented farmers. \u00a0 One said that we <em>so<\/em> take for granted having access to fresh drinking water, while millions don&#8217;t have that access in the Third World. \u00a0 What&#8217;s more, one farmer said she&#8217;d just been watching a documentary that showed people in Africa getting worms &#8212; and any number of other maladies &#8212; from the tainted water they drink. I couldn&#8217;t help but think that wouldn&#8217;t it make sense, common sense, for us in the First World to take short GI showers, bathe every other day, use low flow toilets, stop spending all the money on non-nutritional beverages&#8230; and take the monetary savings to fund humanitarian projects to help those in the Third World have clean water? \u00a0 <strong>Note: \u00a0<\/strong> We water grass in this country while people die of thirst elsewhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have traveled to mid-Ohio to look at sustainable agriculture practices. \u00a0 Today I found myself in a conversation with several social-justice oriented farmers. \u00a0 One said that we so take for granted having access to fresh drinking water, while <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=905\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}